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Just Not Australian
BATHURST REGIONAL ART GALLERY, BATHURST. Just Not Australian presents Australian practitioners at the forefront of national debate and practice. Drawing together 20 artists from diverse cultural backgrounds, their differing ideas and perspectives on nationhood coexist within this timely thematic show. Showcasing the common sensibilities of satire, larrikinism and resistance so as to present a broad exploration of race, place and belonging, Just Not Australian interrogates what it means to be Australian at this challenging point in time
CONCRETE: art design architecture
COWRA REGIONAL ART GALLERY, COWRA. This exhibition aims to question our preconceptions of concrete and to consider its functional as well as its expressive, poetic and aesthetic dimensions
Rebecca Wilson: The Kate Kelly Collection
GANG GANG GALLERY, LITHGOW. Rebecca Wilson’s exhibition retells a visual story of events and folklore inspired by the life and times of Kate Kelly, re-interpreted by the artist to include a collection of portraits based on photos discovered by the artist during her in-depth research over the past five years
Casey Chen: Lazy Dynamite
BATHURST REGIONAL ART GALLERY, BATHURST. Casey's works are both a self-exploration and an homage to the rich and enduring history of Chinese porcelain craft and Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints. Blending childhood nostalgia with long-standing East Asian ceramic traditions, Chen applies his imagery to hand-thrown plates and vases, which are then fused with geometric patterns from traditional craft and contemporary perspectivve
Rebecca Wilson: A Portrait of Landscape and Time in Hill End and Kate Kelly
BATHURST REGIONAL ART GALLERY, BATHURST. In 2010, Forbes-born, Hill End-based artist and writer Rebecca Wilson embarked on comprehensive research and a creative journey to reveal the lesser-known stories of the Central West, with a particular focus on the remote town of Hill End.
Horses and Hounds
BATHURST TACK BOX. The front room of the saddlery is now a gallery space featuring the work of professional and amateur artists.
Jamila Hume
PEISLEY ST GALLERY, ORANGE. The paintings in this collection encourage a pause from the haste that is our 24/7 life; that the colours, gestural strokes of the palette knife and subject matter remind the viewer of the beauty in our natural environment
A Colourful Palette – Paul McKnight
GRENFELL ART GALLERY, GRENFELL. A Colourful Palette surveys a joyous celebration of watery landscapes and their ever changing seasonal and fleeting atmospheric moods
Choose to Challenge Exhibition
PLATYPUS GALLERY, FORBES. Members of the Forbes Arts Society are celebrating International Women’s Day (IWD) as part
of an upcoming exhibition of mixed media work.
Nostalgia
THE CORNER STORE GALLERY, ORANGE. Nostalgia is a collection of oil paintings exploring the strong connection between nostalgia and grief. Naomi (The artist) has sought to explore her own experience through the different lenses of still life, allegory and surrealism
Pollinators: A SPARKE Project
ORANGE REGIONAL MUSEUM, ORANGE. Pollinators will engage local primary school students in a creative art making and environmental education project that explores the behaviour of pollinating insects, birds, bats and other small mammals—examining the crucial role these creatures play in sustaining biodiversity and human health
John Gollings: The History of the Built World
COWRA REGIONAL ART GALLERY, COWRA. John Gollings is Australia’s pre-eminent photographer of the built environment. For the past 50 years he has been synthesising his joint interests in photography and architecture to explore the cultural construction of social space
Water and Birds’ photographic and art exhibition
CONDOBOLIN. The Landcare ‘Water and Birds’ photographic and art exhibition at the Condobolin Community Centre is running for two weeks
Textures of One
BLAYNEY. The 2021 Textures of One exhibition will be coming to the new Platform Arts Hub
Self Portrait in Isolation
PEISLEY STREET GALLERY, ORANGE. A group exhibition consisting of local female artists creating new work investigating the concept of ‘self/self portrait’.
F.O.O.D + ARTS HQ
ORANGE REGIONAL MUSEUM, ORANGE. You are invited to wander through the exhibition space at the Orange Regional Museum while being treated to the delightful soundscape provided by the Orange Chamber Music Festival.
Step outside the concert hall to discover our local history and a deeper appreciation for our local pollinators.
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